Aus der Flasche im 2018-01 getrunken. Eine kräftige Hopfenbitterkeit wird von ein ganz leichten alkoholischen Süße gemildert. Ist nicht ganz so mein Ding, ist aber trinkbar.

Dégustée le 2017-10-02. .

Nose is weak, but the pour’s godlike in its beauty. Monstrous malt-heavy hop bomb, dripping with resinous pine and caramel, deep and semisweet with a slight orange-citrus undertone. Comes across a bit simple, what with the moderate sweetness and massive bitter finish, kind of like a bigger, meaner Dale’s. Apricots and pine needles on the finish, and once again the booze is undetectable. Better when atop its counterpart, but Yang’s not bad on its own.

Pours golden amber with an inch of beige head. Aroma is citrus, mango, perhaps some tobacco (this must be on my mind - 3 times today I smell tobacco in my beer). Flavor is bittersweet fruit - peach or mango, grapefruit peel, light pine turning thicker in the finish. Nice. Sticky.

Tap at beerlovers. Pours darker blonde to amber. Smell is intense, bit hoppy, malty, bit bitter. Taste is aromatic, hoppy, very malty, intense. Almost like a barleywine.

Very hazy orange and copper coloured with a thin, fast-dying tan head. Aroma of honey, earth, yeast, apricots, citrus and a ton of resin throughout. Medium-bodied; Assertive grassy and resin flavours at first with a big dose of alcohol and dry malt coupled with some fruity elements of apricots, pears and apples and ending with a dry, honey and lightly hoppy and bitter flavour. Aftertaste shows some grain and dry grass, coupled with a resinous and piney flavour and ending with a good deal of alcohol and some sweet honey flavours. Overall, a decent Imperial IPA with some nice flavours and bitterness, but nothing special here nor worth searching after. I sampled this alongside the Evil Twin Yin, and preferred that one to this beer, in their respective styles. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from The Crystal City Wine Shop (20th Street Location) in Arlington, Virginia on 28-April-2015 for US$3,99 sampled at home in Washington on 05-Februay-2017.